dmaker Posted September 20, 2021 Share Posted September 20, 2021 I had been using old romsets for genesis, nes, snes and tgx16. I recently finally got around to getting the most recent no-intro sets and spent a fair bit of time with Ultrasearch (great tool for Windows btw) curating those sets down to just USA (and Europe in some cases), and weeding out all proto, beta, rev, etc... So I then went into LB and removed all of those roms and platforms and then re-imported each one. After importing was completed, I then imported another one. Now my LB seems to be kind of stuck on doing the movies and stuff. I got the basic cover art and details for most games, but the other stuff is either stalled, broken or taking days and days ( and days and days it looks like based on progress bar) to finish off the other stuff. Did I break it? Is the process I described not a good way to "refresh" a romset? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Retro808 Posted September 20, 2021 Share Posted September 20, 2021 No, if you are scraping from EmuMovies there is an issue with their API LB uses. We recommend doing EmuMovies scrape in batches. Also, just an FYI if you already had media for the games you deleted and reimported you could still use the original media. LB upon import and naming the games would reattach the original media since it was already named after the game. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dmaker Posted September 20, 2021 Author Share Posted September 20, 2021 Thank you for the reply. I was hoping it would re-use existing media. I'm honestly not sure if it did, as it still said it had like 65K things to download. It's now crawling its way through some box - 3D stuff. This is taking forever. Not sure it will finish before Christmas. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dmaker Posted September 20, 2021 Author Share Posted September 20, 2021 Is there a way I could just somehow start from scratch and make this a bit faster? Is there somewhere else I should scrape movies from other than emumovies? I'd be fine doing a re-install, but if I am going to just end up in the same situation, then there is no point in that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Knowcontrol Posted September 21, 2021 Share Posted September 21, 2021 There is a EmuMovies community-created program that will download from EmuMovies, it's called EmuMovies Sync. It's multi-threaded (2) so you can download twice as fast. It'll search your ROMS and grab only the images or videos you are missing. https://emumovies.com/files/file/321-emumovies-sync/ You can also download from the EmuMovies FTP if you have a supporter account. With the FTP you could set more that 2 threads, I'd suggest no more that 4 though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dmaker Posted September 21, 2021 Author Share Posted September 21, 2021 Thank you, I am trying the sync tool. I pointed it to a rom folder and it's downloading. What do I do with the what it downloads? Is there somewhere I should copy this to....? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dmaker Posted September 21, 2021 Author Share Posted September 21, 2021 So far I like this sync tool..doesn't seem to do movies, but I don't care so much about that. Still not sure what to do with the data after it is downloaded..is there a way to import this into LB? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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